gcstomp

Very sad to hear of Howard passing. Much too young to go. I had a number of dealings with him over the years, and the past couple he did mention letting go of some treasures due to his health, but of course I did not realize it was terminal/hospice level cancer type of health issue. Really makes you examine your own life.

Forgive my fashion innocence, Roy what are those strappy leather things on your jeans? Are they chaps, or some kind of western motif product holder or pants reinforcement?

I was no great fan of the Affleck DD, but I loved the Kingpin casting of Michael Clarke Duncan. No other known actor at the time could have filled the role of what was supposed to be such a massive and powerful, bulky figure. I totally would buy that Kingpin throwing a punch, missing DD, and cracking the brick wall he hit. Just a giant of a man that committed to the role. Netflix DD way better material all around, the show is seriously best quality superhero run I could hope for. But the physical factor of an overwhelming bull of a man is not there in Kingpin, though the guys acting makes up for it, imo.

Binge watched this over 3 days. Just beyond impressed, the fight scenes, the character development and casting, really impressive. I have a bit of anxiety having finished it and not having new material to watch tomorrow of this world. The Kingpin quirks with speech, and outbursts and layers of various issues from his childhood foundation all make sense. The Daredevil outfit feels more like a piece of true combat real world gear than form fitting look at me spandex that provides zero protection. Man, I love this series.

Rupp is the man, . I knew that was what he meant by lots of open threads, and there are no guidelines saying old open threads can be disregarded. Start the clock! Off with their heads! Yea, be cool if we had a little more flower child love and a way slower trigger finger, I dont think adding someone to the list who had prior to the "Ill take it" sign said in the pm to the buyer he was not going to sell it even at the full asking which he felt he made a booboo and was too low. Adding him to the list is a technicality, equal in weight to the refusal to sell the CGC 9.8 WD 1 for $600 in an open thread with no prior sold posting.

TMNT 1 is a 30 year old book that has had a wide base of rabid fans for every bit of that time. In terms of top books of the past 30 years it has to be a top 10 book, in virtually any kind of metric you can think up. I see a single hyper vocal poster who feels TMNT 1 is a bubble book. Great, noted. But how many posts from that 1 poster do we need to know their position?

Nope, small dollar, $40 something. Just things like this cause me a mental short circuit, like someone taking my lunch from the fridge at work. Who freaking took my sammich, as I go desk to desk looking to rip someones head off. Did you touch my chicken salad you sick weasel?

Is this a case where I am just scroogled? I bought from a boardie. Item sent with delivery confirmation showing as delivered on 12/17. But I didnt get the item. I was home all day, so I know item was never dropped off at all. I am sure it was not stolen off porch, it just was never delivered. I am not sure how to proceed, will head to the po tomorrow but I cant imagine it will go well. Look forward to fitzing around on the busiest po day of the year asking for a supervisor who will mock my efforts to find a needle in a haystack. I have done a few hundred buys on this board, and at least 1000 buys on ebay and I have never had an item scanned as delivered but it wasnt until now. I assume no matter what seller is clear because online shows as delivered?

Jeez Rupp I would be pissed at that. From experience I know you lose your arse on shipping those large lots, to compound that loss with a return seems overly harsh. Not sure how 2 soft corners on sealed hb's is justification for buyer needing to return the entire crate of 15 to 20 packaged poodle toys. Looks like uptight buyer to me. I know I wouldnt return one of your lots unless I opened the box and a live spider monkey popped out and stole my car keys.

All around stinks for both of you. You know seller sent item, you have no doubt, you can see his tracking # to the wrong address. You have waited now almost 3 months, on CGC slabs that should not have been sent media mail in first place, to arrive. It takes a minute to update paypal with correct address. Overlooking that step gummed up the works for months. I see both sides, would say you need to file paypal claim but at this point seems you are well past deadline to do so. And you gave the seller a heads up like 10 days ago that you would be outing them unless they refunded you, and there was no response, so its time.

I agree that a small membership fee would cull some problem people, and the ones that do stay would be very much traceable via credit card on file. I cant think of a good reason for a $500 - $700 annual membership like Cal would like, unless there was a serious goody bag of free submit vouchers, a hefty bag of mylar from the CGC receiving room (what do they do w/all that mylar from submissions?) and a meet and greet with Batman.

BCW has done an admirable job of staying cool under fire in what is a faceless mob, empowered by group rumblings. Numerous jabs, calls of "what is your name", thinly veiled insults "you could be the BCW janitor". I have no doubt if a name was provided there would be a detective job done and postings of 6th grade truancy back in 1974 from a google search would be produced in 8 minutes flat, further muddying the waters. Note, Hotflips, a very well known and respected member of the boards has wisely stayed out of the fray, in what can only be called a no win situation. Ultra Pro, Miller, BCW, Hotflips all produce a similar product in the 100 board per pack coated board that sells cheap, and is used in the poly bags that are also sold cheap. These supplies house the comics that fill long boxes all over the country, until such time that the collection is sold off, if moderns then very likey for less than the initial investment in the supplies themselves. EGerber produces a different product, which sells at a multiple of the the cost point of the CB's. The different product not surprisingly has different results in the pH test.

Pure physical strength, modern interpretation, Hulk is strongest. WW Hulk. Silver age, of course it was Supes, there was no upper limit as he was pushing planets out of the way of giant meteors.

Another stat fudger Calligraphy guy. Sure, Eman rolled 4 18's out of 6 stats on your sheet. Did anyone play with straight 3 dice rolled per stat, from top to bottom, and play it out? That may have been the flaw in DnD was the character gen system. A point buy in may have been better, like they use in the online games now. I havent played in 20 years (ouch, Im old) but I still have fond memories of those gaming sessions.

Geez that episode brought back memories. One of my group was amazing with painting the Ral Partha figures. At one point he entered contests, and his pieces would sell for like $50 and a $100 each, and he had a waiting list of months for people wanting to buy them. Real lead, not plastic or whatever they use now for Heroclix mini's. I vividly remember playing module Tomb Of Horrors, and our entire party wiped out, characters that took us years to build. Wonder where my old books are.

Picked up a large batch of Deadpool from USCMitch. Awesome lot of books, all bagged and boarded and he threw in nice freebies. I will definitely look for his next thread.

Have to say I am with Boscoe. You should post if you catch seller in a lie, as in you find out he is selling those exact books. But you do not ninja his sales threads with insinuations of wrongdoing, and post on prob thread on top. Can you imagine how pissed seller must be, having paid you to take his books essentially, and still suffer words from you? ( I am 100% sure you did not receive books, so not misunderstand me. I am talking from seller viewpoint) Again, unless you know he is lying.

Thats an ugly situation. I know in my early days I shipped a low cost package, without delivery confirmation, customer claimed I never shipped. I suffered paypal reversal and a negative, as well as an urge to break something. But packages are swiped off front door steps all the time, so who knows what really happened? Maybe post books and CGC serial numbers, if they are out there, this group will find it in a minute.

If the only good that comes from this is that Dupcak has to ante up and pay a fair amount of child support, that in itself seems like something. At least for the mom and child.

Sot, the actions you outlined clearly suggest you are being set up for theft. Kid wants the refund and the book. I hope some legal eagle on board chimes in, cause it is clear to me what is going down.

Rocky, amazing Rocky, that can be your name. I could do a line by line rebuttal of your line by line breakdown of the buyers line by line post. But for what end. You have been in error in virtually every single line you have posted. You are sure of what you say, so truth has no need to enter the picture. The buyer, and I do believe he is an economics professor and not just playing one, has not used any words incorrectly, has not been mistaken who he has purchased book from, and is not confused in what role CGC played. You Rocky, amazing Rocky, make assumptions, misread sentences, and then make "corrections" because you did not understand what was originally said. But you are tireless in posting ability and will take lack of response as some sort of perverse victory. Which is fine. Just understand what I have said, you have been in error, for a multitude of reasons, in virtually every line of every response you have made in this thread.

Its an uphill battle for the buyer to come on and defend his buy. He does not need to defend it, and its a battle that cannot be won. This board has a peanut gallery armed with limitless ammo consisting of too much free time, mental issues that do not allow them to drop a subject, a tendency to pot shot, and varying maturity levels that do not allow possibility of conceding a point. Buyer should just let this avalanche of from the insufficiently_thoughtful_persons slide on by. I love how an economics professor is being told he does not know what intrinsic means. A problem with message boards is that there is no barrier to entry, no required resume strength showing level of higher education, iq, political beliefs, and history of mental illness. Buyers best move is to say nothing, as it is just not worth the energy in this particular environment to do more.

Chewbacca? In the meantime, the original owner has already flipped the book for a partial interest in an Orange Julius location, as well as a shipment of bamboo for his pet panda. The buyer is too busy to respond, as you can see, due to his participation in a truffle carpaccio tasting in the Internation Festival of Food taking place today in Orlando. Very exciting stuff!

Roman Abramovich has had a rough go of it lately, having lost about 5 billion in past year, as of the last Forbes report on him. His net worth of 8.5 bill for a guy in his 30's, a college drop out yet, is not too shabby I think. So, yeah, dropping 40 or 50 k on a businss lunch, is relatively speaking, like one of us mere mortals spending $5 at Wendy's. I imagine if he wants to impress at a family brunch it would entail Chef Wolfgang whiping up some Beluga and lobster omelettes on his private mountain. Do not worry about directions, as the helicopter will bring you mere steps to the gazebo, while the real life Elvis sings a private ditty to the attendees. I would say, getting back to thread, that buying this book for 12k may seem high. But someone wanted the only 9.9, and he now has it, if another 9.9 never shows up, then maybe it is not a bad buy. In any case, do not think the buyer is sweating it, just chuckling to himself at the peanut gallery who are so shocked th this buy.

That restaurant bill is hard to relate to.... The 20% mandatory tip of $7300, then to throw an extra 5k on top, just because the waiter made sure the breadsticks were warm. I need to get a job at this restaurant. See, the CGC 9.9 NM 98 is a freaken bloody bargain!